Please join me in congratulating one of our students that won a ribbon from the Travis County Youth Show. All students that participated are very excited about winning. Students from the Clifton program came away with seven Champion Awards and one Reserve Champion. Crockett's very own, Tristan Meggs, won the Salsa Champion in the culinary genre. If you see him in the hallway, please give him a shout out!

Below is a video of an example of one of the Rube Goldberg machines that were made in physics class.

Students' machines were required to accomplish a simple task such as closing the cabinet door or throwing a piece of trash away. Some students decided to come up with their own task and then built their machines from there. Great job Physics students!

Four Student INC teams received a total of $2000 in startup funding to get their business ideas off the ground! Kenzer Quest (Najai Robinson) and Surface (Alex DiTullio, Walter Esparza, Julian Rickstrew, and Shane Sawhill) garnered $500 investments, and Arodot (Josue Osorio) and LGBTQ Spotlight (Dylan Yeary) earned $250 each. Students pitched their ideas, business plans, and financial projections to a panel of private sector judges who determined which ideas were the most financially viable. Students will use funds to further develop their products and explore marketability before pitching for a larger investment in May.

Below are pictures of students who attended this event last month.

Please come out to support and cheer on our mighty cougars! As a reminder, AISD is asking that students and adults do NOT bring confetti, glitter, silly string, powder and noise makers to our games.

BOYS BASKETBALL SCHEDULE CLICK HERE

GIRLS BASKETBALL SCHEDULE CLICK HERE

BOYS SOCCER SCHEDULE CLICK HERE

GIRLS SOCCER SCHEDULE CLICK HERE

TENNIS SCHEDULE CLICK HERE

TRACK SCHEDULE CLICK HERE

AISD ATHLETIC INFORMATION AND IMPORTANT FORMS CLICK HERE

Parents,

If you click here, you will find the State of Texas 2016–17 School Report Card for Crockett High School. This is a report required by the Texas Legislature and prepared by the Texas Education Agency. It is to be sent to the parent or guardian of every child enrolled in a Texas public school. The report provides information concerning student performance on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR®), as well as information on student enrollment, class size averages, and financial expenditures.

The information contained in the School Report Card is required by state law and is briefly described in the enclosed “2016–17 School Report Card Definitions.” The report for our school may or may not have all the information described because the information presented depends on whether the school is an elementary, middle, or high school.

State law requires that the school report card display information about the state, the district, and the school. Where possible, the information must be reported by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status of the students and must include at least two years of results.

The School Report Cards can be found online at https://rptsvr1.tea.texas.gov/perfreport/src/2017/campus.srch.html

A more complete report about Crockett High School, the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR), is available by contacting my office or can be accessed online at https://rptsvr1.tea.texas.gov/perfreport/tapr/index.html

Please contact me if you have any questions concerning this report card. Thank you for your continued support of Crockett High School.

A letter from the district:

As you know, Texas districts are required to adopt a school calendar that provides 75,600 operational minutes, including the minutes provided through a professional development waiver. Further, districts are required to make up two days of bad weather/safety closures. Any closures beyond two school days do not have to be made up. The Austin ISD historically builds two bad weather make-up days into the school year calendar.

Given recent legislation that references minutes instead of days, districts were provided the latitude to extend the school day in order to accumulate the equivalent of two full school days of extra minutes over the course of the school year. Most AISD campuses chose to extend their school day and accrue the extra minutes in addition to the 75,600 required minutes. As a result, most AISD campuses will meet the 75,600 minute requirement even though they were closed for two bad weather days.

LBJ and LASA high schools did not elect to extend their school day enough to accrue two extra days of minutes. As a result, it will be necessary for those campuses to provide instruction for a full day on two final exam days (May 24th and May 25th) instead of half a day as originally planned.

Accordingly, all Austin ISD campuses will meet the 75,600 minute requirement without using the previously scheduled bad weather make-up days (Feb. 19th and March 30th) even though there have been two bad weather day closures.